Posted on 05/02/2006 6:45:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Voters in the town of Herndon, Virginia delivered a stunning rebuke today to elected officials who opened a taxpayer funded day labor center for illegal aliens in the town last year. Incumbent mayor Michael O'Reilly lost to Steven DeBenedittis while five of the six at-large town council seats went to candidates opposing the day labor center.
Town Council winners are Bill Tirrell, incumbent Dennis Husch, Connie Haines-Hutchison, Charlie Waddell and Dave Kirby.
Only one of three incumbents on the council who supported the day labor center won re-election, J. Harlan Reece. The other two who went down in defeat were Carol Bruce and Steven Mitchell. Day labor center supporter Jorge Rochac also lost.
With its proximity to Washington, D.C., Herndon has captured national attention as a focal point of the debate over border security and the millions of illegal aliens lving and working in communities all across the country.
The local election came one day after a nationwide protest and boycott effort in support of legalizing illegal aliens.
Turnout in the election was higher than in past years, at 26%. The margin of defeat for the incumbent mayor was 130 votes out of 2,596 votes cast.
The nearly clean sweep by candidates opposed to coddling illegal aliens with taxpayer funds should serve as a warning to incumbents everywhere.
(Are you listening, Sen. George Allen's campaign staff???)
"We've been duped, coerced, played..."
-AFreeBird
It took 8 years of Bill Clinton to turn this country to the right.
And then only by the skin of our teeth. Gore won the popular vote, remember.
Many believed we were getting a conservative government, and look what we got.
A spendthrift Congress,and a phony "compassionate","conservative" in the White House.
I'm looking at the Constitution Party.
For years I berated good Christian people who voted third party
saying "the lesser of two evils is still evil", by telling them
they were throwing away their votes.
No more.
"I'm beginning to care less about who gets elected than about PUNISHING YOU for your arrogant and treasonous malfeasance regarding this matter.
Hundreds of thousands of men have fought, killed and died for this country, and you just want to give it away !
SECURE THE BORDER OR YOU'RE FIRED !!!"
No truer words have been spoken here today!
Me too. We will see who they run.
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